Re: 2.2.12 on linux

Michael Schumacher wrote:

"ivan" <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hello Floyd, all this looks like a whole lot of trouble. I give up for
the time being until I hear of some SIMPLE way of getting an updated
gimp.

It depends on your package management system, but getting a build
environment set up for GIMP can be as easy as

apt-get build-dep gimp

Alas, installing gimp on windows was a cinch!

Yes, because someone else has done all the work for you :)

The hardest (or at least most time-consuming) part of building GIMP on
Windows is to get your build environment set up.


HTH,
Michael

Hello as far as I remember I simply downloaded gimp 2.2.1 to windows XP,
clicked on the .exe and it installed itself. Why can't this be done on
linux? If installing software is difficult in an operating system then imho
people are not going to use it much.
Ivan

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